Roundhouse equipment.



J. RILEY.

ROUNDHOUSE EQUIPMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11. I915.

Mmfim. Patented Dec. 7, 1915.

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1. RILEY.

ROUNDHOUSE EQUSPMENL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 17, I915.

Patented Dec. 7, 1915.

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ROUNDI-IOUSE EQUIPMENT.

Application filed May 17, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMEs RILEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Parsons, in the county of Labette, State of Kansas, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Roundhouse Equipment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to roundhouse equipment and more particularly to apparatus used for inducing draft in the locomotive furnaces to expedite the restoration of the locomotive to service condition after its fires have been banked.

In my prior Patent, No. 1,109,017 dated September first, 1914, I have described roundhouse equipment in which the draft is induced in the locomotive by means of a fan and motor connected by suitable pipe connections with the stack of the locomotive so that the smoke is drawn directly from the stack by means of the fan and discharged into the atmosphere.

My present invention has for its object to improve the apparatus shown in my prior patent by the provision of means through which the smoke may pass to the atmosphere when the fan is not in operation and to this end the invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by the claim.

In the drawings Figure l is a side elevation showing my improved construction; Fig. 2 is an end elevation.

In the drawings, A designates a motor; B a fan; C and D the pipe connections from the fan to the stack of the locomotive; all

Specification of Letters Patent.

Iatented Dec. *7, 1915.

Serial No. 28,592.

is well known to those skilled in the art.

It will be noted that I have placed the pipe connections 0 and D within the smoke ack. It results from this construction that when the motor is running and the adjustable pipe is connected to the locomotive stack, as indicated in Fig. 1, the smoke is drawn directly by the fan and discharged therefrom, as in my prior patent. If, however, the adjustable pipe connections are disconnected from the stack, the smoke may pass through the smoke jack and to the atmosphere thus permitting the escape of smoke from the stack without the necessity for running the fan and motor.

The invention is not to be understood as restricted to the details set forth since these may be modified within the spirit of the claim without departing from the scope of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a roundhouse equipment, the combination of a smoke jack having the usual direct outlet to the atmosphere an exhauster adjacent to the jack a pipe within the jack adapted to be connected at one end to the exhauster and at the other end to the stack of the locomotive.

JAMES RILEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patentw Washington, D. C. 

